Naturestrip generously enabled me to undertake a two week residency at the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture in the Victorian Alps. There, I explored the dialogue between loudspeaker and microphone, the capture/release/recapture/re-release of sound. I brought loudspeakers into the mountains, manipulating sonic environments through the injection of sound, recorded those, and fed this process back in a variety of environments. These experiments asked many questions about the ethics of this practice, the privileging of fidelity, and the acousmatic perception of place.

Other activities undertaken at Bogong included recording plastic bags and gales at the top of mountains, playing phase-cancellation as a sort of musical instrument, and fortuitously recording a lyrebird. These recordings will hopefully culminate in a new recorded work slated for release next year.

Special thanks to Hamish and Anthony of Naturestrip, and Madelynne Cornish and Philip Samartzis of Bogong Centre for Sound Culture.